ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE 2018 ISE CONGRESS

to ISE-L The organizers of the XVI Congress of the International Society of Ethnobiology invite you to submit proposals for organized sessions for the event to be held in the city of Belém do Pará, Brazil, August 7-10, 2018. Session proposals will remain open through January 31, 2018. Individually volunteered paper and poster proposals will open February 20and close April 1. The full guidelines for session proposal submissions are attached in both English and Portuguese. The event will be organized around the core congress theme, “Belém+30: The rights of indigenous and traditional peoples and the sustainable uses of biodiversity three decades after the Declaration of Belém”, and six associated sub-themes: 1 – Traditional knowledge associated with biodiversity: legal, ethical and economic considerations; 2 – Global changes: local perceptions and actions; 3 – Food: diversity, sovereignty, innovation and gender; 4 – History ecology and landscape ontologies; 5 – Traditional medicine, medical cosmologies and biodiversity; 6 – Biodiversity management and conservation: dialog across forms of practical experience and ways of knowledge. For more information, please visit the conference website: https://www.ise2018belem.com The first International Congress of Biology was held in Belém, Brazil in 1988, organized by Darrell Posey and sponsored by the Goeldi Museum. The event led to the creation of the International Society of Ethnobiology (ISE) and the drafting of the “Declaration of Belém,” a pioneering document that asserted the inextricable connection between traditional populations and biodiversity and contributed to the formulation of article 8j of the Convention on Biological Diversity of 1992. Considering the 30th anniversary of this landmark event, Belém was chosen to host the XVI Congress of the International Society of Ethnobiology, providing a forum for celebrating three decades of ethnobiological science and reflecting on advances in and new challenges to biodiversity and traditional peoples’ rights. The Goeldi Museum and the Federal University of Pará are organizing the event, which will be held in conjunction with the 12th annual symposium of the Brazilian Society for Ethnobiology and Ethnoecology (SBEE). The event program will include conferences by international scientific experts, social activists, and indigenous leaders as well as scientific sessions, round table discussions, an indigenous forum, a pre-congress field school for students, workshops, mini-courses, a “sociobiodiversity fair,” food court with traditional Amazonian foods and an exhibit about the legacy of the anthropologist Darrell Posey. We look forward to your submissions, and please share this information with colleagues, associations, list serves and social media groups you think might be interested in attending. We hope to see you in Belem in August! [the organizing committee] "Belém+30: The rights of indigenous and traditional peoples and the sustainable uses of biodiversity three decades after the Declaration of Belém” XVI Congress of the International Society of Ethnobiology / XII Simpósio Brasleiro de Etnobiologia e Etnoecologia https://www.ise2018belem.com ise2018belem@gmail.com -- Juarez Carlos Brito Pezzuti Universidade Federal do Pará - UFPA University of Para Núcleo de Altos Estudos Amazônicos - NAEA Centre for Advanced Amazon Studies R. Augusto Correa 01, CEP 66075-110 Belém, Pará, Brasil +55 91 32018524 +55 91 32017677 (fax) juca@ufpa.br juarez.pezzuti@gmail.com